Louise, I love this …. it also made me think of a reflection I heard 25 years ago at May Memorial Unitarian Universalist Society, which I used to attend. I googled the minister’s title, “mended cup of meaning,” and his name (Nick Cardell) was the first link to show up! Nick has since passed away, but here is a quick summary: The Rev. Nick Cardell writes:

For thoughtful, conscious life all creation is precariously contained in a mended cup of meaning. It is the cup from which we drink our lives—the cup with which we drink to life. It is a cup which is broken and mended, broken and mended over and over again. Each time an era passes, a way of life is destroyed, or someone of significance to us dies, we cry out that our cup is broken, and so it is. Yet, somehow—together—we must find, we do find the way to mend it all over again.

Fascinating! Reminds me of how again and again it is all to easy to look in the wrong places for the source of our frustrations, and how quickly we look outside of ourselves for something / someone to blame. Better to acknowledge what is there in the first place than to become angry when we are made to face it.

Living an ART filled life...“Creativity is a God-given ability to take something ordinary and make it into something special. It is an openness to doing old things new ways…The creative spirit is part of our heritage as children of the One who created all things. And nurturing our creativity is part of our responsibility as stewards of God’s good gifts.” - Emilie Barnes, The Spirit of Loveline